Improvement in mechanical movement



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TO ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN:

Be it known that I, H. O. BURK, of Mineral Point, in the county of Tuscarawas, and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Mechanical Movements; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, making part of this specification, and to the letters of reference marked thereon, like letters indicating like parts whever they occur.

To enable others skilled in the art to construct and use myeinvention, I will proceed to describe it.

My invention relates to mechanical movements, and consists of a novel arrangement of mechanism for t-rarismitting motion from or near the circumference of a driving-wheel to another wheel turning upon the same shaft and centrc,'so as to give it an increased velocity of revolution over that of the driving-wheel, as well as for converting rotatory into reciprocal motion at the same time by the use of a pitman. In the drawings- Figure 1 is a perspective View, and t Figure 2 is an edge or side view.

In constructing my mechanical movement, I use a wheel,A, driven by animah watcr, wind, steam, or other power, as in reaping or mowing-machines, horse-powers, water-wheels, windmills, steam-engines, Etc. Near the periphery of the wheel A, I place the spur-wheel B, attached rigidily to a shaft which passes through the wheel A, so as to turn in it, and. which has connected with it, on the side of the wheel A opposite the spur-wheel B, a pitman-rod, E, which moves easily upon it. The spur-wheel B gears into the pinion-wheel O, which turns loosely on the shaft D of the wheel A, as shown infig. 1'. On the, shaft D, I place the 'arm F, so as to move loosely about it,'and bent, as shown in figs. 1 and 2, provided at its outer end wit-h aholc through which the pitman E passes loosely.

In operating my mechanical movement, it will be seen that as the wheel A turns, it carries with it the spurwheel B, which causes the pinion-wheel O to revolve, and that every revolution of-the,wheel A, will, through the spur-wheel B, cause the pinion-wheel C to make more than double the number of revolutions of the wheel A, and at the same time gives a.reciprocating movement to the pitman E.

. By means of my mechanical movement, I am thus enabled to give great rapidity of motion to the pinionwheel 0, with an economical use of my power. Motion may be communicated from the pinion-wheel Gand the pitmanE to other mechanism as and when desired.

Having thus describedamy invention, what I claim, is-

The combination of the main wheel A, spur-wheel B, with its pitman E and pinion wheel 0, all arranged to operate substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

H. C. BURK.

Witnesses:

H. B; MUNN, P. T..Donen. 

